Crossword-Solution: FORRESTAL 9 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Then suddenly, Forrestal gets the _Saturday Evening Post_ to run two articles, brushing the whole thing off.

The Project “Saucer” report said unequivocally: “The object could outturn and outspeed the F-51, and was able to attain a much steeper climb and to maintain a constant rate of climb far in excess of the Air Force fighter.” A leaking balloon? More and more, I became convinced that Secretary Forrestal had persuaded some editors that it was their patriotic duty to conceal the answer, whatever it was.

During the spring of 1949 this policy, which had been strictly maintained by Forrestal, underwent an abrupt change.

During the next five years Forrestal, a brilliant, complex product of Wall Street, would assume more and more responsibility for directing the integration effort in the defense establishment.

Although no racial crusader, Forrestal had been for many years a member of the National Urban League, itself a pillar of the civil rights establishment.